In the last twelve months, the Turkish state has appeared significantly more corrupt. That is the underlying message of Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index, released December 3.

Turkey is being governed from the massive recently built presidential palace, President Erdoğan has said, in an apparent bid to assert his authority over the prime ministry

Rise in Security Expenditures Turning Turkey Into Police StateAINA (press release)
Istanbul Bilgi University’s NGO training and research center was established in 2003. The NGOs told us they were not informed about public expenditures in the areas where they were working. So in 2009 we prepared a guide for NGO members to enable .

I want to share with you an article I just published in Current History. The December 2014 edition of Current History has a collection of articles on the Middle East by prominent scholars that give excellent analyses and updates for different countries in the region.